Highlights
The Chef Manager functions as a key operational leader within the hospital Food & Nutrition Services Department, supporting the Food & Nutrition Director in maintaining a safe, efficient, patient-centered operation. The Chef Manager should also serve as the culinary leader on the floor, responding to operational issues in real time and ensuring patient production remains the priority while maintaining strong retail quality and service.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lakeway, TX |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Production |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1936 |
| Website | https://www.aramark.com/ |
Description
Job Description
Aramark Healthcare+ is seeking a Chef Manager to join their team at Baylor Scott and White Lakeway Hospital in Lakeway, TX. The Chef Manager functions as a key operational leader within the hospital Food & Nutrition Services Department, supporting the Food & Nutrition Director in maintaining a safe, efficient, patient-centered operation. The position provides daily oversight of culinary operations while remaining hands-on in both patient and retail production.
Just like you, we're passionate about everything we do, and we'll make sure you have the right growth opportunities to reach the peak of your career.
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities include coordinating production around patient census and meal periods, ensuring therapeutic diets, allergies, modified textures, standardized recipes, portions, temperatures, and presentation requirements are followed; supporting tray-line readiness and on-time meal service; maintaining regulatory, food-safety, sanitation, infection-prevention, and departmental standards; participating in inspections and survey readiness; managing staffing and workflow during call-outs or unexpected volume changes; monitoring food waste, labor productivity, inventory, and food cost; and collaborating with clinical nutrition, nursing, diet office, retail, purchasing, and other hospital departments.
The Chef Manager should also serve as the culinary leader on the floor, responding to operational issues in real time and ensuring patient production remains the priority while maintaining strong retail quality and service. The position should help develop staff, reinforce accountability, identify process improvements, and maintain consistent standards across all shifts.
At Aramark, developing new skills and doing what it takes to get the job done make a positive impact for our employees and for our customers. In order to meet our commitments, job duties may change or new ones may be assigned without formal notice.-
Qualifications
- Culinary degree, associate degree, or equivalent combination of culinary education and progressive food-service experience preferred.
- 3?5 years of progressive culinary/food-service experience, with previous supervisory or management experience required.
- Strong knowledge of large-volume food production, standardized recipes, batch cooking, portion control, food presentation, inventory management, and food-cost control preferred.
- Working knowledge of therapeutic diets, food allergies, modified-texture diets, patient meal service, and healthcare food-service requirements preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to be a hands-on working leader who can cook, train, coach, troubleshoot, and supervise simultaneously.
- Strong knowledge of food safety, HACCP principles, sanitation, temperature control, cross-contamination prevention, and regulatory compliance.
- ServSafe Manager certification or equivalent food-protection manager certification required or obtained within the organization's required timeframe.
- Ability to lead employees across patient and retail operations, manage competing priorities, and make effective decisions in a fast-paced hospital environment.
- Strong communication, organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule based on operational needs,including early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays as required.
- Ability to meet the physical demands of a working kitchen environment, including prolonged standing and routinely lifting/moving food, supplies, and equipment within organizational safety requirements.
Education
About Aramark
Our Mission
Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.
At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
About Aramark
The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth. So, no matter what you're pursuing - a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work - our focus is helping you reach your full potential. Learn more about working here at http://www.aramarkcareers.com or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About Company
We focus on enriching and nourishing the lives of millions all over the world, providing a wide range of services—food, facilities and uniforms—to a diverse group of clients in 19 countries. We serve world champion sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, state-of-the-art healthcare providers and the world’s leading educational institutions. And every day, we dream of ways to do it better through our commitment to innovation and our passion for excellent customer service.
Innovation inspired by you
The better we know the people we serve, the greater the experiences we can develop. Whether it’s food service, facilities or uniforms, our proprietary programs allow us to understand the wants and needs of our audiences.
Armed with that knowledge, our Service Stars spring into action, combining insights and ingenuity to deliver moments that make a difference. These innovations could be game-changing campus transformations. Or a simpler, quicker way for you to access condiments at the ballpark. In any case, our innovations help create experiences that make an impact.
Beyond great service
Another key part of what makes us different is something we call service excellence.
To us, service excellence isn’t just about providing great customer service. It also means using time-tested practices and proven processes to get it right every day, everywhere, in everything that we do. And it's also about striking the perfect balance between doing something well over and over again and being responsive enough to the changing needs of clients and customers. It’s being open to the continuing cycle of innovation. Excellent, but never satisfied. Process-driven, but never locked in place.
We never stop thinking of new, better ways to get it right when our people impact the lives of clients and consumers every day.
Our people make all the difference—we make sure of it
Our commitment to hiring, training and rewarding the right people ensures that our employees are more than just hard workers. They’re Service Stars, and that means they can be counted on to go above and beyond, every single day.
We understand that many times our people are literally the face of your business. That’s why all 270,000 Service Stars receive continual access to professional development and proprietary skills training.
The bottom line is this: when you work with Aramark, you can be confident you’ll be collaborating with the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. That’s true whether it’s for strategic expertise, operational excellence or just serving a morning coffee. That’s our commitment as trusted partners and Service Stars. That’s the Aramark way.